Incremental Improvements Define The 2012 Mobile World Congress |
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Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The usual players all showed up at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with lots of improved devices, but no real game-changing breakthroughs... |
Consumer Devices Can Help Redistribute The Wealth
We will see some downturn in the wireless industry, but it may be less of a hit (with lower growth instead of a loss) than other electronic sectors...
SkyTel, Velocita Wireless Complete Merger And Tackle M2M Apps
SkyTel and its acquirer, Velocita Wireless, have completed their merger and are now participating in the machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communication space under the SkyTel name...
Secure MCUs Designed For M2M Modules
By using GSM or UMTS networks, Atmel’s AT90M family of secure microcontrollers for machine-to-machine modules offers wireless connectivity to a range of equipment that communicates without human intervention...
AT&T Adds HTC’s TouchFLO To Smartphone
AT&T Inc. and HTC Corp. have released the HTC FUZE smartphone, which provides users with QWERTY keyboard functionality with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D touch-screen interface...
IEEE Puts On Comm Event Extravaganza
The 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) theme is “Empowering the Connected Consumer,” and will host over 400 engineers, researchers, product design specialists, and industry executives...
T-Mobile G1 Tallies $143.89 In BOM Costs
Based on Google’s Android mobile operating system, the T-Mobile G1 smart phone required a bit of design innovation—and $143.89 in bill-of-materials (BOM) costs...
picoChip Will Demo Reference Designs At LTE World Summit
According to picoChip, the LTE World Summit for Nov. 17-20 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London will include the industry’s first LTE reference design demonstration...
Power Amp MCM Targets 3G/4G Femtocells
A highly isolated, fully matched multichip module (MCM), the AWB7220 power amplifier from Anadigics, is the first in the company’s new line of products targeted at the 3G and 4G femtocell markets...
Zing Picks Aperto PacketMAX For Multistate WiMAX Network
Zing, a next-generation wireless service provider based in Detroit, Mich., will use Aperto’s PacketMAX solution for a multistate WiMAX network...
Clear Your Calendar For Two Upcoming Conferences
If you haven’t been to any of the wireless conferences hosted by Avren Events, you have a couple of dates to add to your calendar...
Qualcomm Licenses Foxlink For Module/Modem Development
Qualcomm has granted Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxlink) a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture, and sell module and modem cards implementing the cdma2000, WCDMA, and/or TD-SCDMA standards...
Wireless Firms Collaborating On Single-Chip LSI, Platform
NTT DOCOMO Inc., Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., and Sharp Corp. are jointly developing a single-chip large-scale integration (LSI) device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA/HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephone standards...
SDIO Module Makes A Big Splash At WiMAX World
At WiMAX World 2008, Altair Semiconductor showed off its low-power WiMAX chipset for mobile solutions...
XOHM Chooses Beceem Communications Chipset For Mobile WiMAX Network
Sprint Nextel and XOHM have launched the nation’s first Mobile WiMAX network in Baltimore, but these 4G capabilities couldn’t have gone online without Beceem Communications and its BCS200 chipset...
Combo Chipsets Will Drive GPS In Mass Market GSM Handsets In 2009
The expected availability of chipsets that combine FM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS in 2009 will open GSM handsets to navigation and popular location-based services...
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